'Politicians named' in Westminster child sex scandal

ABUSE: Former politicians are claimed to have abused children for "decades" [GETTY]

One day after the government announced an inquiry into an alleged cover up of child sex abuse at the heart of Westminster, a child protection expert claims at least 20 prominent paedophiles, including former MPs and government ministers, allegedly abused children for "decades".

Former child protection manager Peter McKelvie said victims of the abuse were treated like "lumps of meat", taken from place to place to be molested by the "elite" group – and alleged that even more establishment figures were involved in covering up their activities.

Mr McKelvie said the activities had been covered up out of "self-interest" and for political reasons.

He told the BBC: "I would say we are looking at upwards of 20 (people) and a much larger number of people who have known about it and done nothing about it, who were in a position to do something about it."

He added: "I believe that there is strong evidence, and an awful lot of information that can be converted into evidence if it is investigated properly, that there's been an extremely powerful elite among the highest levels of the political classes for as long as I have been alive – I'm 65 now...

PROBE: Theresa May has launched an investigation into an alleged Government child sex scandal [PA]

“A much larger number of people who have known about it and done nothing about it”

Former child protection manager Peter McKelvie

"We are looking at the Lords, we are looking at the Commons, we are looking at the judiciary, we are looking at all institutions where there will be a small percentage of paedophiles and a slightly larger percentage of people who have known about it but have felt that in terms of their own self-interest and self-preservation and for political party reasons it's been safer for them to cover it up rather than deal with it."

His shocking claims were made as another charity said that at least 10 well-known former and current politicians were being named "over and over again" by alleged victims.

Dr Jon Bird, from the National Association for People Abused In Childhood, told Sky News: "The names of people in very high places – politicians, senior police officers and even some judges – have been going around as alleged abusers for a very long time."

Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday launched two probes into claims the Government hushed up child abuse allegations.The scandal was sparked by revelations a dossier compiled by the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens into alleged paedophiles active during the 1980s went missing.